On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:20:53AM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >>Welcome to UI development. There is always *far* more argument of minor > >>matters of appearance than over anything else, in my experience. > > > >Which is a good thing (in this case at least), because otherwise we > >would end up with a crappy UI just because a single person thinks it's > >"good enough". > > > This makes me think we shouldn't be hard-coding anything at all > as the welcome message; but rather having a default .psqlrc > in much the same way that that there's a default /etc/bash.bashrc > and /etc/csh.login. > > Within that default .psqlrc we can put > \qecho "Whatever the default message is" > or > select "my message "+version(); > to create the default, but then anyone with their own .psqlrc > can re-define it to whatever they think is a "good enough" UI.
+1 Including no banner at all please. -- David Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510 536 1443 510 282 0869 If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
